Current Song Stuck In My Head

i hope you don't mind

i hope you don't mind

that i put down in words

how wonderful life is

while you're in the world

Monday Morning Musings

OK! I have NOT put up my Christmas tree! The picture I put on my Monday Morning Musings last week is very old. Aubrey is like 2 in the picture. The kids begged me again yesterday to let them put it up. I told them we will do it next Sunday.

I came up with a fabulous way to get my girls to clean their room. I swept everything into little piles and said in 5 minutes everything that is still in this pile is going into the trash. We moved from pile to pile that way. Their room has never been cleaner than it is now. And I got to throw a bunch of stuff away too.

Are accents genetic? I think they are because Emily has a definite Texas twang and Zac and Aubrey have St. Louis accents.

It was really foggy this morning. Aubrey looked out the window and said, "It's so DUSTY outside".

I finally took down my Halloween decorations on Saturday, it being 10 days after Halloween and all. I remember a few years back when I had to take down the Halloween decorations in order to put the Christmas ones up. That's sad.

It is 10 more days until Thanksgiving!

Flashback Friday - Comparison

Steve has always said that Addison looks like me in this picture:

Then the other day I found this picture of Steve:

I think she looks just like him. But then I look at the picture of me and I can see so much of her in it. Then I look at the picture of him again and I can see so much of her in that one. I think she is a good mixture of both of us. What do you think? Take the poll to the right.

We've Come A Long Way Baby

Yowser Dowsers!

This post, this very post you are reading right now, just so happens to be my.....

Drum roll please.

Ahgmhmmm, I said

DRUM ROLL PLEASE!

HEY YOU!

I seriously want you to stop what you're doing and give me a drum roll........

BARUMTHMTHMTHMTHMTHM

(my text version of a drum roll since you won't cooperate)

Ladies and Gentleman,

Presenting my

200th post!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

(that should have been read with an Angel chorus from Heaven type ahhhhhhh)

This here blog had some pretty humble beginnings. I had heard of blogs before but I had never really seen one. Then my sister Kristy sent me a link to her blog with pictures of her kids on it. I thought, hummmm. That is a good way to share pictures with friends and family since our friends and family are spread out all over the continental United States (and Meh-hee-co, I didn't forget you Sam). So after Addison was born and I needed a way to share the pictures, my blog was birthed. Click here to see my very first post.

We've gone through lots of changes, this blog page and me. We have redecorated several times. Changed names. I actually learned how to use this here fandangled computer to do all sorts of tricks. And now it is just a part of me. I walk through everyday life noticing little things that would make fabulous posts. If you look around my house you will find little pieces of scratch paper everywhere with thoughts or ideas scribbled on them. My children say, "Mom, you have GOT to put this on your blog!" several times a week. I go up to someone and they start talking to me about things going on in my life and I'm like, "Say what? How'd you know that?". And they say, "Duh! 'cause I read your blog." I guess if I'm gonna put it out there for the whole world to see, people are gonna know about it.

So now I guess I need to explain the picture. I knew this whole 200th post thing was commin'. And for a week now I have been trying to come up with something GREAT to commemorate it. I thought and I thought and I googled. And then I decided that I am just too busy to put that much effort into it. So I thought I would have my kids make the number 200. You can see how great that worked. It is funny. No one questions the picture thing anymore. When I say I need a picture of something people just know. And amazingly they do. Like my dear old hubby. Before this whole blog thing if I would say I needed the kids to get on the floor in the shape of 200 he would have looked at me like I was insane and I would have had to explain why and then he would have looked at me like I was insane again. I didn't even have to tell anyone why. I just said, "Kids, before you get ready for bed I need you to get on the floor and make 200 with your bodies, Steve you help them and I will stand on the bed and take the picture." And they all did it right then, no questions asked. I guess they figured they'd read about it tomorrow.....

A Love/Hate Relationship

Warning:

If you are in the midst of reading the Twilight series do not read beyond this point. It includes major plot spoilers. I take no blame for any damage done to your reading experiences if you choose to continue past this point.

(and by the way, thanks Kristy for the handy mosaic of Twilight book covers)

Huhhmmmph. I don't know what to say. Then why, you ask am I posting. Because normally people who post have something to say. But if you have been reading my blog for any length of time now, you know that that is not always the case.

I just finished reading Eclipse, the third book in the Twilight series. When I started reading the series I fell in love. I fell in love with a vampire. I fell in love with the story. The whole shabang. Then it really started to get irritating. I now hate the before mentioned vampire. He gets on my nerves like nothin' else before. I think it is the sappiest love story ever written. It makes me want to vomit sometimes. I have to keep reminding myself that it was written for geeky little teenage girls with thick glasses and acne who dream of having someone love them in the same way Edward loves Bella.

Don't even get me started on Bella. Has there ever been a more annoying, stupid, idiotic main character in the history of literature? I would just love to slap some sense into that girl. I don't even want to wast anymore of my time on her.

The story line in the last book was so obvious. Oh, my! Jacob gets hurt so Bella can realize she really does love him. Oh, my! Bella gets to see a newborn vampire in action so she can have a little doubt cast about weather or not she wants to join the ranks of the undead. What a surprise!

All that being said, I loved the books. As much as I wanted to throw them up against the wall at times, I couldn't stop reading them. And now that I am finished, I can't wait for the next one to be published. It sounds to me like the next one will be through the eyes of Jacob, maybe, from what I gathered from the epilogue. Good. Jacob is the only redeeming character in the whole series. I've dropped the fascination with the vampire and I am now in love with a werewolf. Go figure.

I started reading the new book for my book club this month and I am so bored with it. I want so much to return to the small town of Forks and all its magical mystical creatures of the night. Why? When it so bugged the heck of me? I don't know. There is just something about it that pulls you in and keeps you trapped there. Like I said, I have a

LOVE/HATE



relationship with this series.

I was just doing a little blog hopping and I happened upon these:

Monday Morning Musings - Deck The Halls

Woo Hoo for me! All my kids are home SICK today. And it is the kind of sick that requires a lot of cleaning up after. Double Woo Hoo for me!

Do you remember when HALLOWEEN was a one day holiday? I feel like it was a whole month long celebration this year.

In case you didn't know, it is November 5th. It wasn't that long ago that it was October 5th. It is going to be DECEMBER 5th before we know it.

Yesterday when we were eating lunch and trying to decide how to go about entertaining ourselves, I said, "Hey! I know, let's put up the CHRISTMAS TREE!" My kids got so excited. I really wanted to put it up too. I told them we HAD to wait though. Maybe in another week or two. Now they are going to bug me and bug me until we finally do put it up.

When I started thinking about putting up the tree I REMEMBERED taking it down last year and it seems like that just happened.

Steve was watching Tombstone the other night on TV and lookie look lookie who was on it. John Locke. If any of the rest of you think it has been a RIDICULOUSLY long time since the season finale of Lost I found this counter on the internet:
Countdown to LOST: The Season 4 Opener 93 days 8 hours 20 minutes left

How ridiculous is that?

We were eating this yummy Rosemary bread with dinner last night and it smelled like the spa to me. I really want a MASSAGE right now.

I have this little teeny tiny pinpoint of a bump on my leg. About 3 weeks ago I cut it while shaving (I was not aware of it's existence at that time). It bled and bled these great big huge drops of BLOOD for days and it would not stop. It finally stopped but now whenever the tiny little scab gets rubbed off, which happens on a daily basis, it starts bleeding again. You wouldn't think that much blood could come from a minuscule little hole like that, but it does. And like I said, it makes these HUGE drops of blood. I have to wear a band aid all the time now because when my pants brush up against it, it starts to bleed and after a few minutes my pants will be soaked in blood. And I am always having to change the band aid because it becomes saturated with blood. Any suggestions? Before I bleed to death through a tiny opening in my leg.

My Wasted Hour

The alarm on my cell phone went off at 6:40 this morning, just like it does every other morning. I turned it off and laid in bed for a few minutes, just like I do every morning. Then I got up and started getting ready for church. As I was getting ready, I was keeping time by my DVR in my bedroom. That's how I knew when it was time to leave for church. We went to church, came home at 12:00, changed clothes, ate lunch. While in the middle of eating lunch, I looked over at the clock on the oven. It said 2:09. I freaked out for a minute. I'm thinking it took us 2 hours to change and start eating lunch??? Really? That's when I realized that my most favorite day of the whole entire year passed me by without my even knowing it. My cell phone and DVR automatically updated and.....I didn't even know! I am still mourning the loss of my extra hour. Steve keeps telling me that I didn't miss the extra hour, I still got an extra hour of sleep. But it's just not the same.

My Own Louisville Slugger

Current song stuck in my head:

It was on the radio today, and when I realized it was stuck up there I was so SOOOOOO happy. Imagine has been driving me insane. I was at the craft store tonight and all of a sudden Imagine came on the radio. I panicked. But even though it has tried several times to take over, "Before He Cheats" has held on strong. I just might even forgive Carrie for stealing the title of American Idol from Bo.

Flashback Friday - I-D-A-H-O Idaho, Idaho, GO GO GO!

Scott, Kristy and Kay

Zac and Emily

The year was 2002. Mom came from Dallas for a visit. She and I took Zac and Emily and drove up to Idaho to visit Scott and Kristy who were going to BYU Idaho at the time. It was a fun trip. I wish you two, or four at the present time, still lived "close" so we could see you more often.

BOO!